California health by county

[DMenscha]

Apparently we are all going to die (or already have) in my county.

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

Fascinating map and data presentation ... a person could spend all day perusing this ... go to link and click on California map (it's a national study) ...fiddle around with categories and sidebar information links. The coast from Marin south looks mostly pretty good. But, whoa!, inland! What's up with that!??

County Health Rankings

nullgeo, this is not a "data" presentation. This is a ranking based on several factors that the University of Wisconsin believe in to determine their rankings. It does not use cold and calculating data to determine the ranking.

In short, their ranking is based on potential outcome.

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

I assume you only looked at a very few of the categories offered under the "Health Outcomes" opening map. Click also on "Health Factors", in the blue bar at the bottom of the left hand scroll sidebar. There are many many many categories. Much of the information gathered is from various, hard statistical sources -- some from surveys.

Where?

[felinius]

Originally Posted by TimC2462

Where?

Our Approach

Originally Posted by TimC2462

It does not use cold and calculating data to determine the ranking.

Data Sources & Measures

The County Health Rankings team synthesizes health information from a variety of national data sources to create the Rankings. ...

[TimC2462]

Originally Posted by felinius

Our Approach



Data Sources & Measures

Thank you. I'm looking around and reading about their methodology.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by TimC2462

nullgeo, this is not a "data" presentation. This is a ranking based on several factors that the University of Wisconsin believe in to determine their rankings. It does not use cold and calculating data to determine the ranking.

In short, their ranking is based on potential outcome.

Originally Posted by TimC2462

Where?

I'm not sure if I understand your statement and question -- because the data and sources are well presented and documented, as poster felinius has specifically linked.

A quote from the "Data Sources and Measures" page:
"The County Health Rankings team synthesizes health information from a variety of national data sources to create the Rankings.Most of the data we use are public data available at no charge. Measures based on vital statistics data, sexually transmitted disease rates, and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data were calculated for us by staff at the National Center for Health Statistics and other units of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The same is true for our health care quality measures, which were calculated for us by the authors of the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare, using Medicare claims data. Another key data source, primarily for social and economic variables, is the American Community Survey. We download these data sets and, where needed, calculate the estimates ourselves. Similarly, we downloaded publicly available data on violent crime and some built environment measures, and calculated point estimates."

Pretty clear, but there are a lot of links ... perhaps you didn't get past the opening map or two?
This is one hell of a good and thorough study by a very reputable source with long standing academic association and experience.
What's to refute? And why?